 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 pages
...undertakes to describe, he never shrinks from describing it. He gives us the shape, the color, the sound, the smell, the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he...His similes are the illustrations of a traveller. I'nlike those of other poets, and especially of Milton, they are introduced in a plain businessKke... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...undertakes to describe, he never shrinks from describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the sound, the smell, the taste; he counts the numbers; he measures...business-like manner, not for the sake of any beauty in 1he objects from which they are drawn, not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 922 pages
...between Dante and Milton, Mr. Macaulay says,1 that the former " gives us the shape, the odor, the sound, the smell, the taste, he counts the numbers, he measures the size " of all which he describes. " His similes are the illustrations of a traveller " " introduced in a... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the sound, the smell, the taste: he counts the number!" ; d priests, they nut for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn, not for the sake of any ornament... | |
 | Education, Secondary - 1854 - 338 pages
...undertakes to describe, he never shrinks from describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the sound, the smell , the taste ; he counts the numbers , he...plain, business-like manner; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem; but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...shrinks from describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the sound, the smell, the taste: he counis the numbers; he measures the size. His similes are...from which they are drawn, not for the sake of any ornamem which they may impart to the poem, but simply in order to make the meaning of the writer as... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...undertakes to describe, he never shrinks from describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the sound, t would have been easy fop that fertile mind to have...wit as Prince Hal, and to have made Dogberry and V poeis, and especially of Milton, they are introduced in a plain, business-like manner; nut for the... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 936 pages
...Dante and Milton, Mr. Macaulay says,1 that the former '• gives us the shape, the odor, the sound, the smell, the taste, he counts the numbers, he measures the size " of all which he describes. " His similes are the illustrations of a traveller " " introduced in a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...describing it. He gives us the shape, the colour, the sound, the smell, the taste: he counts the number»; he measures the size. His similes are the illustrations...they are introduced in a plain, business-like manner; nut for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn, not for the sake of any ornament... | |
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 pages
...undertakes to describe, he never shrinks from describing it. He gives us the shape, the color, the sound, the smell, the taste ; he counts the numbers ; he...measures the size. His similes are the illustrations of a traveler. Unlike those of other poets, and especially of Milton, they are introduced in a plain, business-like... | |
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Unlike those of other poets, and especially of Milton, they are introduced in a plain, business-like manner; not for the sake of any beauty in the objects from which they are drawn; not for the sake of any ornament which they may impart to the poem; but... 
